Closing device for bottles.



No. 807,410` PATENTE) DBG. 12, 1905.

G. WIBEEG. CLOSING DEVICE EOE BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPTJO, 1903.

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CLOSING DEVICE Fon BOTTLES.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application filed September 10, 1903. Serial No. 172,683.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORG WIBERG, a subject of the King of Sweden and Norway, and a resident of Stockholm, Sweden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Closing Devices for Bottles, (forwhich I have applied for a patent in Sweden September 23, 1902, No. 1,679; in Germany, October 16, 1902, No. 19,748; in France, April 7, A1903, No. 320,7 56, and in Russia, April 29, May 11, 1903, No. 20,687,) of which the following is a speciiication.

The invention refers to a closing device or stopper for bottles which is easily fastened to the bottle and easily closed and opened and which is not affected with the disadvantages adherent to mechanical Stoppers for bottles hitherto known-viz. that the stopper in closing cannot be pressed down successively into deeper positions and be fixed there, but must be pressed down into a predetermined position which is not the lowest one.

On the accompanying drawings the device is shown applied to a bottle in Figures 1 and 2 in a front and side view.

The closing device consists of a split ring a of any suitable metal iitting round the neck of the bottle, the ends thereof being after the attachment united by means of a screw Z. On this screw, between the ends of the ring, there is a link-piece c, turning round a bolt Z in the rear part of the head of the stopper. In the front part of the head there is a closing-piece f, with a narrow bearing-surface turning on a bolt c, said piece f being formed to a ring g at the lower end. In this ring there is mounted a disk c', provided with an eccentrically-located hole h and capable of being rotated in the plane of the ring, having a radially-projecting handle c, by means of which the disk may be rotated in the ring. rIhe ring a, lixed to the neck, is provided on the front side with a short pin Z, directed obliquely downward, with which the hole in the above-mentioned disk may be easily engaged, so that when the disk is rotated the hole occupies its lowest position. On rotating the disk afterward by means of the handle Z0, so as to move the hole upward, the stopper is simultaneously pressed down successively into the mouth of the bottle as deep as possible. The hole in the disk should be located so as not to occupy its highest position when the new stopper occupies its lowest position, as

after being used for some time the stoppers generally can enter deeper into the bottle, and then the disk has to be rotated somewhat more to obtain a tight joint. With this stopper it is of no importance in what position the hole stops, for the disk can at all events not be rotated by a force acting upward on the stopper, as it is counteracted by a force always passing through the pin Z whatever position the disk rl or hole may occupy. m

is a stop on the closing-piece f, against which stop a shoulder n on the disk Z abuts when the hole /L occupies its highest position in order toAA prevent any further rotating of the disk, which would again carry the stopper upward. This stopping device may, however, be modified in several ways.

As shown, this closing device is of a very simple construction. It is fixed to the bottle by means of a screw and is very easily closed and opened, and both operations may be effected by one hand. If the bottle contains an aerated beverage, the carbonic acid contained above the water escapes successively and is dissipated before the stopper has entirely been freed from the bottle and no sniffing out of liquid occurs.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a closing device for bottles in combination with a hinged stopper, a closing-piece f, a rotatable disk e', provided with an eccentrically-located hole t, and a pin Z on the bottle about which said disk is'rotated.

2. In a closing device for bottles in combination with a hinged stopper, a closing-piece f, a rotatable disk z', provided with an eccentrically-located hole ZL, a handle 7c therefor, and a pin Z on the bottle, about which said disk is rotated.

3. In a closing device for bottles in combination with' a stopper, a ring a to which it is hinged, a closing-piece f, a rotatable disk rl with a hole Zt, a handle Z; for rotating said disk, a pin Z on the said ring a, about which said disk is rotated and bolt Z) connecting the stopper to the said ring a.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORG WIBEEG.

Witnesses:

FEEDRIK L. ENQUIsT, A. HOLJESTRAND.

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